KAMPALA, UGANDA: If you are a DStv Uganda customer, embrace for more tough times ahead after Multichoice Uganda Ltd has announced new price changes in their TV subscription packages at a time when football leagues across the world reach their peak moment.
According to notifications via its socials and text messages sent to customers, DStv Uganda revealed that effective April 1st, 2023, Premium subscribers will now pay UGX275,000 per month (from UGX 255,000) while Compact Plus will now cost UGX 160,000 (from UGX 150,000).
For DStv Compact customers, the new monthly rate is UGX 104,000 (from UGX95,000), while the new DStv Access, DStv Family and DStv Lumba rates are at UGX 64,000, UGX 43,000 and UGX 16,000 respectively.
Other DStv services like the DSTV Xtraview/ HD PVR access fees have also gone up to UGX56,000 from UGX 46,000 according to the new prices announced Wednesday afternoon.
New DStv Bouquet Prices 2023:
| DStv Bouquet | Old Price | New Price |
| DStv Access | 37,000 | 39,000 |
| DStv Family | 55,000 | 59,000 |
| DStv Compact | 89,000 | 95,000 |
| DStv Compact Plus | 142,000 | 150,000 |
| DStv Premium | 23,000 | 255,000 |
| DStv Asian | 132,000 | 132,000 |
| HD PVR Access Service | 44,000 | 46,000 |
| Xtraview | 44,000 | 46,000 |
The new DStv prices come barely six months when Multichoice increased the same bouquets at the start of the 2022/23 football season, with the service provider then citing inflation and economic pressures as the major force for the price adjustments.
“We have considered the rate of consumer inflation and current economic pressures facing Uganda when considering our price adjustments,” Ms Joan Semanda Kizza, the Communications Manager for Multichoice Uganda said then in August 2022 when the new prices were announced.
The new rates for the paid TV service provider which enjoys the biggest share of the urban market has been met with a loud outcry with a section of Ugandans taking to their socials to call for the regulation of what they termed as “dubious charges’ imposed by the monopolistic company.
“Come on DSTv, you increased prices in September last month which is just 5 months ago. Its not fair. You can as well come for your dish because I am not paying this,” one Jonah Kirabo replied to DStv’s tweet.
DStv Uganda Bouquet Prices in the Last 6 Years
| Bouquet Package | New April 1st 2023 | New Sept 1st 2022 | 2021 | 7th Sept 2020 | 1st Sept 2019 | 1st Nov 2017 | 1st Nov 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Premium Package | UGX 275,000 | UGX 255,000 | UGX 239,000 | UGX 227,000 | UGX 219,000 | UGX 280,000 | UGX 287,250 |
| DSTV Compact Plus | UGX 160,000 | UGX 150,000 | UGX 142,000 | UGX 135,000 | UGX 129,000 | UGX 180,000 | UGX 190,700 |
| DSTV Compact | UGX 104,000 | UGX 95,000 | UGX 89,000 | UGX 84,000 | UGX 79,000 | UGX 115,000 | UGX 121,600 |
| DSTV Family | UGX 64,000 | UGX 59,000 | UGX 55,000 | UGX 52,000 | UGX 49,000 | UGX 60,000 | UGX 66,750 |
| DSTV Access | UGX 43,000 | UGX 39,000 | UGX 37,000 | UGX 35,000 | UGX 33,000 | UGX 33,000 | UGX 38,000 |
| DSTV Lumba | UGX 16,000 | UGX 116, 000 | UGX 132, 000 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
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